As the deadline looms, the push faces two massive obstacles: the implacable opposition of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the fact that supporters are attempting to do something nearly unprecedented in Chicago’s political history.
her allies not to attend a public hearing Nov. 14 that would have allowed the City Council to vote to put the proposal on the Feb. 28 ballot generated howls of outrage, the mayor showed no sign of altering course.
“I did not hear a call to meet and compromise, I heard a call to meet and agree to what they wanted,” Lightfoot said. Even if supporters of the proposal managed to hold those meetings and win those votes, the effort to change the city’s real estate transfer tax would just be beginning, since passing a binding citywide referendum is easier said than done, officials said.
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